Trump's most outlandish, bombastic, and eye-popping tweets of 2017

Chris Kleponis-Pool/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump has tweeted that social media is the ‘Only way for me to get the truth out!’

President Donald Trump did a lot of tweeting in 2017.

On many days, Trump’s tweeting provided the headline material for his roller-coaster first year as president.

He attacked everyone from former President Barack Obama to actress Meryl Streep. He tweeted about the Russia investigation, “fake news,” 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, his travel ban, television hosts, and often what was airing on the “Fox & Friends” morning show in real time.

In total, Trump smashed the “tweet” button more than 2,500 times in 2017. And he is showing no signs of slowing down.

Here are the 60 most outlandish, eye-popping, and bombastic Trump tweets of 2017:

When he chastised “so-called ‘Russian hacking'”

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When he hit back at Hollywood legend Meryl Streep for calling him out in an acceptance speech

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When he asked if we are “living in Nazi Germany?”

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The many times he tweeted about his defeated opponent Hillary Clinton

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What are Hillary Clinton's people complaining about with respect to the F.B.I. Based on the information they had she should never…..

Marshawn Lynch of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders stands for the Mexican Anthem and sits down to boos for our National Anthem. Great disrespect! Next time NFL should suspend him for remainder of season. Attendance and ratings way down.

When he had the chance to respond to his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, getting arrested

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When he asked why Kim Jong Un would “insult me by calling me ‘old'”

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When he tangled with basketball dad LaVar Ball

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Now that the three basketball players are out of China and saved from years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, is unaccepting of what I did for his son and that shoplifting is no big deal. I should have left them in jail!

Shoplifting is a very big deal in China, as it should be (5-10 years in jail), but not to father LaVar. Should have gotten his son out during my next trip to China instead. China told them why they were released. Very ungrateful!

It wasn’t the White House, it wasn’t the State Department, it wasn’t father LaVar’s so-called people on the ground in China that got his son out of a long term prison sentence – IT WAS ME. Too bad! LaVar is just a poor man’s version of Don King, but without the hair. Just think..

…LaVar, you could have spent the next 5 to 10 years during Thanksgiving with your son in China, but no NBA contract to support you. But remember LaVar, shoplifting is NOT a little thing. It’s a really big deal, especially in China. Ungrateful fool!

When he decided to speak out on Democratic Sen. Al Franken’s alleged sexual misconduct

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When he inexplicably did this

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When he asked people to check out the pasts of top NBC executives after Matt Lauer was fired, and appeared to promote a right-wing conspiracy theory that MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough murdered an intern

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So now that Matt Lauer is gone when will the Fake News practitioners at NBC be terminating the contract of Phil Griffin? And will they terminate low ratings Joe Scarborough based on the “unsolved mystery” that took place in Florida years ago? Investigate!

When he had the chance to respond to Flynn, his former national security adviser, pleading guilty for lying to the FBI

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I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!

When he called for the Washington Post to fire a reporter

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.@daveweigel of the Washington Post just admitted that his picture was a FAKE (fraud?) showing an almost empty arena last night for my speech in Pensacola when, in fact, he knew the arena was packed (as shown also on T.V.). FAKE NEWS, he should be fired.